Transnational labour campaigns: Can the logic of the market be turned against itself?

Development and Change

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 991-1003

  Seidman, Gay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; LABOR MARKET; LABOR SUPPLY; MONITORING; WORKING CONDITIONS;

AFRICA; ASIA; CENTRAL AMERICA; EURASIA; GUATEMALA [CENTRAL AMERICA]; INDIA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTH ASIA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 58149359214     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: 14677660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7660.2008.00525.x     Document Type: Article

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